Greek destroyer Leon (1912)

	Destroyer Leon
History
Greece
Name	Leon (ΒΠ Λέων)
Namesake	lion
Ordered	1912
Builder	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Laid down	1911
Launched	1 July 1911
Commissioned	1912
Decommissioned	15 May 1941
Fate	Sunk at Souda Bay, Crete 1941
General characteristics
Class and type	Aetos-class destroyer
Displacement	880 tons standard
Length	89.4 m (293 ft)
Beam	8.3 m (27 ft)
Draft	3 m (9.8 ft)
Propulsion	5 × Foster Wheeler boilers (4 coal-fired and 1 oil-fired), replaced by Yarrow oil-fired boilers in 1925; 5 funnels; combined Parsons and Curtis steam turbines;
Speed	31 knots (57 km/h) maximum (32 knots (59 km/h) after 1925)
Complement	58
Armament	As completed:; 4 × 4 in (100 mm)/50 guns; 1 × 3 in (76 mm) anti-aircraft gun; 6 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes; 3 × electric search lights; 1925:; 76.2 mm gun removed; 37 mm anti-aircraft gun added; four-barrel 40 mm (1.6 in) gun added; 2 mortars added; Modified for laying 40 mines; 1942:; 3rd and 4th stern torpedo launchers removed; 1 × 3-inch (76 mm) anti-aircraft gun added; 1 × 20 mm Oerlikon gun added; A/S type 123A detection device added;

Leon (Greek: ΒΠ Λέων, "Lion") was an Aetos-class destroyer which served in the Royal Hellenic Navy from 1912–1941.

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